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I’ve been hanging out at the church a lot this week, now that I’m the stage manager for the inagural production of the Labyrinth Theater. I’ve been helping out with set / seating construction and technical (computer) issues in the theater office. I’ve been trying to get my laptop to work with the churchs’ 802.11b router with no luck. I have the WEP key and have verified it is correct. My laptop will authenticate with the router, but the router doesn’t pass it an IP address.
I spoke to Martin yesterday and he suggested perhaps the admin had MAC locking turned on. We called him and found out he does not have MAC locking enabled. If I have the WEP key it should be working fine.
Laurel brought her brand new laptop in today, with a Linksys 802.11g card and it is having the same problem. Someone tried to tell her it was because she’s trying to use a G card with a B router. I explained that that doesn’t matter and her husband agreed, explaining that their router at home, with which this equipment works just fine, is also a B router.
I have attempted to log into the router here at the church (I’m connected to ethernet right now) and confirmed that it is also a Linksys router (Skywise, my laptop, uses Intel Centrino wireless), so it’s not a brand cross-compatibility issue. I was told what SHOULD be the password for the router, but it isn’t working.
Anyone have any ideas? (The admin isn’t available to troubleshoot it. He has a regular day job.)